{"id":2013445,"date":"2023-08-27T09:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historically-black-university-had-close-call-with-shooter-before-racially-motivated-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T13:46:17","slug":"historically-black-university-had-close-call-with-shooter-before-racially-motivated-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historically-black-university-had-close-call-with-shooter-before-racially-motivated-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Historically black university narrowly avoided shooter before &#8216;racially motivated&#8217; attack."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhistorically-black-university-had-close-call-with-shooter-before-racially-motivated-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013445&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Edward Waters University Stands Strong Against Gunman<\/h2>\n<p>Edward Waters University, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">historically black college<\/a>, demonstrated resilience and bravery when they turned away the Jacksonville gunman on the day of his mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter, \u2063described by police as a white\u2063 man in his 20s, approached an on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historically-black-university-had-close-call-with-shooter-before-racially-motivated-attack\/\" title=\"Historically black university narrowly avoided shooter before 'racially motivated' attack.\">-campus security officer<\/a> but refused to \u200didentify himself. In response, the officer\u2063 calmly asked the man to leave, which he did &#8220;without incident,&#8221; according to\u200b the school.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting the\u200b Community<\/h3>\n<p>However, tragedy struck shortly after when the gunman \u2062carried out a shooting at a\u2064 nearby Dollar \u2062General store,\u200c located in\u200d a predominantly black neighborhood in Jacksonville. The devastating incident\u2064 claimed the lives of two men and one woman. The gunman, armed with a Glock \u200bhandgun and an\u200d AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, had even painted a swastika on the weapon. He was also wearing\u2062 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-may-require-people-applying-for-a-handgun-license-turn-over-list-of-their-social-media-accounts\/\" title=\"New York May Require People Applying for a Handgun License Turn Over List of Their Social Media Accounts\">bullet-resistant vest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the chaos unfolded, students at Edward Waters University were kept safe inside their dormitories as a precautionary measure. The school released a statement assuring that no students or faculty\u200b were involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<h3>A Racially Motivated Crime<\/h3>\n<p>Law\u2062 enforcement later confirmed that the mass shooting was\u2064 a &#8220;racially motivated&#8221; crime.\u200c Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters expressed in a news conference that the gunman\u2062 had a \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heartbroken-disgusted-and-furious-kim-kardashian-demands-gun-control-to-prevent-school-shootings\/\" title=\"\u2018Heartbroken, Disgusted, And Furious\u2019: Kim Kardashian Demands Gun Control To Prevent School Shootings\">deep-seated hatred<\/a> towards black people.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) condemned the shooter, referring to him as a &#8220;scumbag&#8221; who chose to take his own life rather than face\u2063 the consequences of his actions. The governor\u2062 emphasized \u200bthat \u2062the shooter had taken the coward&#8217;s way out.<\/p>\n<p>The severity of the incident prompted \u200dthe FBI to launch a \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-announces-investigation-into-andrew-brown-jr-shooting\/\" title=\"FBI Announces Investigation Into Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting\">federal civil rights investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click \u2063here<\/a> to read more from\u2062 The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Waters University, a historically black college, denied entry to the Jacksonville shooter during his mass shooting. The white male in his 20s confronted a security officer on campus but refused to disclose his identity. Consequently, the officer instructed him to depart, which he complied with, avoiding further escalation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}